ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,915, issued on July 28, was assigned to Osypka AG (Rheinfelden-Baden, Germany).
"Catheter" was invented by Thorsten Gottsche (Mulhouse, France), Benjamin Burg (Rheinfelden, Germany) and Bart Kootte (Lorrach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention deals with improvements in the technical field of electromedical catheters. As an improvement, among other things, a catheter is proposed whose catheter arms can be clamped from an initial position into at least two different clamping positions and maintained in the clamping positions."
The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2022, under Application No. 17/678,146.
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